The tornado touched down a few miles south of the Stewart community, where it began uprooting and snapping off thousands. Many structures were heavily damaged by falling trees. A few homes and barns were directly damaged by the tornado's winds. Several power poles were snapped as well.

Radar Imagery
These images from the Brandon, MS Doppler radar show the tornadic thunderstorm at 2:30am when it tracking between Stewart and Eupora. The image on the left shows 0.5° base reflectivity data, and the image on the right shows 0.5° storm relative velocity data. Click on the thumbnail below for a higher resolution image.::